Page 31 - BPW-UK ANNUAL REVIEW 2023-2024

Articles in BPW e-news:

• the environment
• Protection for girls, misogyny and its effect upon women
• Women’s rights in business
• How some women have been airbrushed and their achievements have not been
recognised and how some are now being recognised for their work long after their
passing.

The case of Elsie MacGill was cited by Margo Davidson-Wood

“Elsie MacGill, known as “the Queen of the Hurricanes” and the first women in the world
to earn an aeronautical engineering degree, was honoured in 2023, long after her death.
The Royal Canadian Mint created a commemorative “loonie” entitled “honouring Elsie
MacGill”. Members of BPW Canada were present for this auspicious occasion.”

Left to right: Colleen Babiuk-Ilkiw; VP Canada;
Karin Gorgerat; Immediate Past President Canada;
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Shannon McEwing 1 VP/President Elect Canada.
For further information on Elsie Macgill herself, go to;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsie MacGill.

Members interest:

• Health Matters: Is it truly for all when where you live affects the outcome?
• Screening for all
• Changes in the law and how they differ or not in the three nations, the right to vote,
serving to-day on juries

“As late as the 1970’s, women in the Isle of Man were not eligible for jury service. Finding
this unacceptable, BPW Isle of Man, set about getting the law changed. With help and advice
from both Tynwald, (the IOM Parliament) and Westminster, a Bill was put forward. I can't
remember exactly the sequence of green papers, white papers etc it went through before
acceptance and being read out at the annual open air meeting of Tynwald on Tynwald Hill.
And so BPW changed the law.

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